Richard Prebble
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Richard Prebble: Dairy should be NZ’s economic growth engine not immigration
OPINION: Dairy is a sustainable way to grow the country.
Richard Prebble: The coalition Govt is creating red tape as fast as Labour
OPINION: David Seymour's regulation-busting ministry needed more than ever.
Richard Prebble: This Government needs radical change to get out of fiscal hole
OPINION: Selling assets to pay off debt should be an option.
Richard Prebble: Technology a faster way to solve climate change
OPINION: Two New Zealand companies are already showing the way.
Richard Prebble: Why Trump won the US election and what it means for NZ
OPINION: The lessons NZ should take from what Trump is promising.
Richard Prebble: Is copying the UK Labour budget our future?
OPINION: Britain plans to tax the rich and businesses more.
Richard Prebble: Will the Government's Social Investment Fund work?
OPINION: We need a new approach.
Richard Prebble: How Christopher Luxon can turn around his dire ratings
OPINION: The recession and Luxon's political inexperience are two factors for low polling.
Richard Prebble: How Labour could win the next election
OPINION: Spending more on healthcare has not fixed the problems.
Richard Prebble: Why Luxon’s 90-day plans need to be bolder
OPINION: Closing the gap with Oz will take years but narrowing it each year is achievable.
Richard Prebble: What’s gone wrong with the news media
OPINION: 'Secrecy causes far more damage than disclosure. The answer is ... no secrets'.
Richard Prebble: How government policy failures created today’s gangs
OPINION: Prison is the gangs' recruitment centre. Govts start the recruitment process.
Richard Prebble: This is a US election no one should copy
OPINION: More debt, tariffs and wealth taxes are all issues in the US election.
Richard Prebble: We need an alternative to the Govt’s tax and spend model
OPINION: We need policies that recognise we are both taxpayers and consumers.
Richard Prebble: The folly of issuing parking fines
OPINION: Are we really going to start people on the path to prison for parking?
Richard Prebble: The Govt should sell all of Kiwibank
OPINION: History has shown government-owned banks have done poorly.
Richard Prebble: What New Zealand can tell USA about their election
OPINION: Kamalamania appears to be driving the polls in the US.
Richard Prebble: Speech reveals what really motivates Christopher Luxon
OPINION: Luxon’s politics is motivated by a desire to lift education achievement.
Richard Prebble: Right and wrong answers for a health crisis
OPINION: The coalition's drug-buying decisions raise more questions.
Richard Prebble: Why the Government should privatise SOEs
OPINION: The economy is too complex for any government to be able to pick winners.
Richard Prebble: A new path to net zero emissions
OPINION: Insisting on a plan using today’s technology just gives illusion of certainty.
Richard Prebble: Hipkins has too much baggage - can Barbara Edmonds save Labour?
OPINION: Chris Hipkins cannot extract Labour from the swamp of identity politics.
Richard Prebble: If we don't measure educational achievement, how can we improve it?
OPINION: Lifting the quality of teaching must be a priority.
Richard Prebble: The lessons NZ should take from the US and UK elections
OPINION: Recent TV debates held by the major parties in both countries have been decisive.
Richard Prebble: Reserve Bank needs better data for big economic calls - there's an app for that
OPINION: A Kiwi-invented app could provide the solution.
Richard Prebble: Don't waste a recession - now's the time for sweeping deregulation
OPINION: Coalition has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make sweeping deregulations.
There's danger in Act’s coalition gamble: Richard Prebble
OPINION: Since MMP no minor party in Cabinet has survived the next election.
Richard Prebble: 'Dire straits' - the key number to watch in Thursday's Budget
OPINION: The evidence indicates New Zealand has exceeded its peak taxation.
Richard Prebble: Why charter schools work
OPINION: US charter schools are so popular that schools hold enrolment lotteries.
Richard Prebble: Why social investment bonds could be the coalition’s big idea
OPINION: New Zealand politicians regard just spending money as a success.
Richard Prebble: The coalition Government is all action and no message
OPINION: The Government needs to talk about its vision, not just give a list of actions.
Richard Prebble: Rolling ministers is the way to get rolled
OPINION: Show me an incompetent minister and I'll show you an incompetent department head.
Richard Prebble: Beware of government subsidies close to home
OPINION: 'Public life has cost me two marriages. I was not willing to risk a third.'
Richard Prebble: It is lunacy to join a military alliance aimed at our biggest trading partner
OPINION: New Zealand has a free trade agreement with China, not the US.
Richard Prebble: Why not govern the country like it is a company?
OPINION: Business leaders are more trusted than politicians.
Richard Prebble: Have advocacy ministries gone past their use by date?
OPINION: Advocacy ministries are one reason the civil service grew by 14,000.
Richard Prebble: Luxon has the worst honeymoon of any elected PM
OPINION: His polling is now down 10 per cent from its peak.
Richard Prebble: What’s causing the scandalous backlog in courts
OPINION: What we blast as 'police state' tyranny elsewhere we are doing ourselves.
Richard Prebble: Traffic congestion is not inevitable, it is a choice
OPINION: We need both congestion charging and user charges to fix Auckland's traffic jams.
Richard Prebble: Why the Reserve Bank should have hiked the OCR
OPINION: PM has left previous govt appointees in key roles - including the Reserve Bank.
Richard Prebble: The shocking statistics confronting the new Government
Is the best way to get people out of poverty redistributing wealth or a strong economy?
Richard Prebble: This coalition Govt is promising revolutionary change, but...
The words are just gesture politics unless they are implemented.
Richard Prebble: No court has ever said the Treaty created a legal partnership
OPINION: Laws are what are passed by Parliament as interpreted by the courts.
Richard Prebble: Wellington City needs its own Wayne Brown
OPINION: Giving the city taxpayers’ money would only reward reckless behaviour.
Richard Prebble: Getting jobseekers into employment must be an urgent priority
Everything Labour did failed to reduce benefit numbers.
Richard Prebble: A government debt disaster, made in Japan
OPINION: This year we need to keep an eye on Japan, with its alarming debt to GDP ratio.
Richard Prebble: Who’ll do all the work if the jobseekers won’t?
OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Richard Prebble.
Richard Prebble: What I predict will happen in 2024
OPINION: Ongoing technological change is a certainty.
Richard Prebble: NZ needs to break the negative economic cycle
OPINION: All we got for Christmas was rain and bad news.
Richard Prebble: Regulation shake-up needed to fix ferry cost blow-out
OPINION: Act leader David Seymour should get his teeth into the earthquake regulations.
Richard Prebble: Labour's Smokefree strategy was doomed to fail
OPINION: Aspirational goals can be dangerous.
Richard Prebble: Slash red tape and watch the economy take flight
OPINION: But the new Government has inherited a mess.
Richard Prebble: How the Labour Party can win again
OPINION: Labour wasted its years in Opposition and did no policy work.
Richard Prebble: High Court must decide if the 2023 vote-counters got it right
OPINION: Is election-day enrolment destroying the integrity of our elections?
Richard Prebble: Making a trade deal with India - the time to start is now
Opinion: It's obvious that trade with India is the way to reduce our dependence on China.
Richard Prebble: Labour’s landmines mean it’s in with a chance in 2026
OPINION: Chris Hipkins must fancy his chances of winning the next election.
Richard Prebble: Why Luxon should let Act take the tough jobs - and catch the flak
OPINION: Luxon needs a coalition capable of solving the problems we face.
Richard Prebble: After the election - another election
OPINION: A likely outcome of the election is another election.
Richard Prebble: Could Labour's 2023 election hopes rest with Jacinda Ardern?
OPINION: Labour’s only hope is a cyber campaign targeting overseas voters.
Richard Prebble: It’s a National landslide in the electorates
OPINION: Chris Hipkins gave no reason to re-elect him in first leaders' debate.
Richard Prebble: Mass immigration isn’t working - we need to get more Kiwis into jobs
OPINION: We are economically going backwards and so too is our quality of life.
Richard Prebble: The real election issue - reward hard work, not freeloading
OPINION: IMF's growth projections are a warning for NZ.
Richard Prebble: Labour on track for their worst defeat - blame the non-voters
OPINION: We may see the lowest voter turnout since MMP.
Richard Prebble: National and Act should learn from Labour’s broken promises
OPINION: Ministers will regret they achieved so little in six years.
Richard Prebble: Labour a hapless whale to the sharks - and Hipkins is to blame
OPINION: The sharks are the Greens and NZ First, who are ripping voters off Labour.
Richard Prebble: Winston Peters and the politics of revenge
OPINION: Peters is getting his revenge on Labour by taking some of that party’s voters.
Richard Prebble: Cutting GST on food - a bad answer to the wrong question on tax
OPINION: I helped introduce GST - it's easy to collect and easy to pay.
Richard Prebble: Labour's in chaos - the latest portfolio shuffle proves it
Opinion: Kiri Allan has gone and she will take Labour with her.
Richard Prebble: Three strikes and Labour is out - another scandal will be fatal
OPINION: Luxon does not need to win the debates, just state the case for change.
Richard Prebble: Kiri Allan bullying claim - the other explanations in her favour
OPINION: Bully or just a hard-working minister?
Richard Prebble: Labour MPs scared of losing the best job they’ll ever have
OPINION: Polls suggest at least 22 Labour MPs are facing the end of their careers.
Richard Prebble: China trip is Chris Hipkins’ Mission: Impossible
OPINION: I cannot decide whether Nanaia Mahuta is talking drivel or is brilliant.
Richard Prebble: Feeling negative about the economy? You’re not the only one
OPINION: We have three of the four horsemen of the economic apocalypse.
Richard Prebble: Here’s how we can start closing the gap with Australia
OPINION: No party is campaigning to close the productivity gap. They should be.
Richard Prebble: Who’ll do all the work if the jobseekers won’t?
OPINION: We are well on our way to becoming a Saudi Arabia.
Richard Prebble: Hipkins vs Luxon - the voters’ choice is clear
OPINION: Politicians broadly fall into one of two categories.
Richard Prebble: The new Cold War in New Zealand’s Pacific patch
OPINION: Solomon Islands rivalry shows need to boost our Foreign Affairs effort.
Richard Prebble: Christopher Luxon has a problem looming with female voters
Brooke van Velden's campaign could win over female voters.
Richard Prebble: Why taxing ‘the rich’ will hurt us all
OPINION: Labour is using "the wealthy" as an enemy to help it win the election.
Richard Prebble: Why Luxon is one of Labour's biggest assets
OPINION: MPs who come from business usually take six years to adjust to politics.